Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Director, Software Development Engineer

Introduction to team

The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an established technology leader with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry! 

The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with airlines worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs that adhere to NDC standards, we enable travelers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive ticket shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease. 

We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia’s business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse integration methods—ranging from direct connections to NDC and GDS sourcing—our platform processes over 50 Tier-1 services and generates more than 8TB of data each month. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs. 

What Sets Us Apart 

Global Scale: We operate a platform that impacts millions of users worldwide, making air travel more accessible, seamless, and personalized

Innovation-Driven: We thrive on solving complex challenges, continuously improving our technology stack, and staying ahead in the fast-paced travel industry

Collaborative Culture: Our geographically distributed team is empowered to drive high-priority initiatives independently while fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and shared success

If you’re passionate about creating transformative solutions, tackling large-scale engineering challenges, and shaping the future of air travel, then we’d love to have you on our team. Join us, and let’s redefine the way the world travels together! 

 

 In this role, you will:

Identify the interrelatedness of work activities across teams and recommend improvements to processes to increase effectiveness

Remove team barriers to implementing new ideas or approaches by securing the necessary resources or support from senior management

Ensure process improvement initiatives focus on measurable results, and help teams establish measures of success

Manage and lead the product development lifecycle to reduce time to market, improve product quality and ensure product success 

Partner with leaders across all EG to collaboratively solve problems

Support and inform EG leaders via a community of practice and product reviews

Build relationships with leaders across the organization to understand business problems and apply a technology lens to solve them

Identify areas for improvement and develop innovative enhancements using available software development tools following design requirements of customer

Advocate for designing software that is scalable, resilient and stable

Make decisions on product technology direction based on deep subject matter knowledge

You will be well versed/has up-to-date knowledge in EG's languages, frameworks, cloud services, toolkits, methodologies

Exceed customers’ expectations by listening for unexpressed needs; connect customer needs to relevant service offerings and new technology

Lead others in resolving technical issues in a timely manner; follow up with customers to ensure satisfaction

Partner with the business to integrate new technologies into business solutions; create and communicate a vision of the technology requirements for the future state of the business

Identify and mentor critical talent within subdivision

Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional area to promote efficiency in the department or business unit/function

Place individuals in roles and assignments that stretch their capabilities and contribute to their personal and career development whilst facilitating cross-team and cross-divisional movement of talent as a tool for building skills, capabilities, and creating visibility to talent

Identify team educational and training needs and develop programs or recruits’ specialists to meet those training needs 

 

Experience and qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or master’s in a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience

At least 12 years of experience in software development industry with more than 5 years of leadership experience

Equivalent experience includes: Managed at least an org of 3 senior managers (manager of managers) and executing capacity planning/allocation for a team size of 30+ and built a strategy and driven a roadmap for a multi-product, cross functional program across multiple years

Led development and improvement of multiple tier-1 services  

Built a strategy and driven a roadmap for a multi-product, cross functional program across multiple years

Strong technical acumen which allows you to be responsible for several technical domains and choices recommended in a team and then implementation involving a number of technologies  

Presented new technology choice to technical and non-technical observers

An expert in multiple domains

Guide others to make well defined technical choices and are an expert in multiple domains

Built strong teams by mentoring managers to empower team members. You have also mentored employees outside of your direct organization

Defined team goals to solve a business need across an entire business unit

Delivered solutions to business problems spanning a business unit

Collaborating closely with the product team you have delivered and influenced across multiple teams spanning a business unit  

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $224,000.00 to $313,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $358,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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